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Another month of no food while the suns up. Its not to bad during weekday because i'm occupied and busy, but the weekends will be harder. Especially with the 'shift' being about 13 hours long.
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I do, but only for one day once a month. How much do you eat after sunset Kash? Do you fast liquids too? I think I would find that the hardest.
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Can you get up early, before sunrise, and have breakfast?
I used to go all day without breakfast/lunch when I was working. You feel much more energised with some fuel in you to start the day. |
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suprisingly your not too hungery after sunset. you can't eat anything (including liquids) between sunrise-sunset.
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a friend of mine,who sadly passed away a few years ago had a great way to cope during ramadan kash, he cheated.;)
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The lack of liquids woud be the end of me. I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed WATER!
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Lucky it's not durin the summer months when the days are looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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As the Islamic calender is to do with the moon, ramadan comes 10 days earlier every year. so in a few years ramadan will be in the summer.
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If I was a Muslim I would migrate round the world to make sure I encountered the shortest possible time between sunrise and sunset.
In the Falkland Islands that is now approximately three hours. Easy peasy.:D |
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...but I wouldn't live in Scandanavia, if Ramadan fell in June, where day light lasts for twenty three hours!:eek:
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My friend has just organised a drumming festival in Nelson and realised that not only is it during Ramadan, so he'll get tired easily, but it's on at the same time as a food festival in the town centre. He's a bit bummed out by the thought.
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The moral of that story Gayle is to check the calendar with care. Food festival going on when fasting must be doubly difficult. How heavy are the drums? Are they the ones slung over the shoulder?
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Fortunately, he's not actually drumming - just organising it but yes they are the big drums.
There are Chinese Lion dancers and Batala drummers and Dhol drummers - not all playing at the same time. 30th Sept 12 - 4 Nelson Town Centre http://www.batalaliverpool.com/ - one of the bands. |
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last few days i've felt really dehydrated and fastin for the previous two days was just bleugh!! |
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Water must be the hardest thing. Thank goodness my religion force feeds me chocolate eggs in april and mince pies in december.
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*LMAO*
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is it cheating to get put on a drip coz this guy invented the beer drip :D
http://www.freakingnews.com/entries/...Mashbeer_w.jpg |
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Is it just food/water through the mouth? For example... is having food pumped in to your arm by a drip a technicality? :p
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As I understand it, nothing has got to pass you lips during fasting. No sex either. The only time you can break fasting is for women, that's when there having their period. No smoking, sex, drinking or eating.
I work with 2 asian lasses and they have broken their's because they seriously needed a drink of water. We work 12 hour shifts in a nursing home, that can get really hot and the only way to cope is the have a drink of water to keep hydrated. Now I know it's religion but who in there right mind stops people from having a drink when they really need one?? :mad: |
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How about doing it on a time share with someone else - for example, I'll fast between the hours of 2pm and 4pm every day which means that I'm doing those two hours for you. In that time you can have a snack safe in the knowledge that someone is fasting on your behalf.
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Ramadan is another reason why I would never embrace Islam.
Any religion that exercises such control over its followers cannot be a healthy one and only serves to substantiate my view on all religions that they are just a means of controlling the masses. Apart from that I wouldn’t fancy being operated on by a Muslim surgeon who is wracked with hunger and thirst. I wouldn’t be comfortable flying in a plane that is piloted by a Muslim captain between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan. Nor travelling in a train or bus controlled by a Muslim driver. |
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A lot of doctors have to work ridiculous hours when they are tired and hungry and nothing at all to do with Ramadan. We put our lives in their hands without having any real idea of how fit they are to be able to handle what they are doing. I know it's a different subject but the hours some medical type people have to work is appalling.
I've just come home from Blackburn hospital in a car driven by a muslim driver and he wasn't exactly passing out at the wheel. There was just one problem. He was a bit concerned about finding the nearest mosque to here but I was able to help him out with that so all's well all round. |
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I'm sure my masseuse is anorexic...and I put myself in her hands every week, and she's Christian.
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I agree WillowTheWisp that our hospital doctors and nurses particularly in A & E work some appalling hours but it is rare that they cannot snatch a bite of something or a drink during their long, long shift. And of course it doesn’t last for 30 consecutive days.
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The point of ramadan isn't really to find ways around the fasting is it... if you put all your effort into finding ways around it you might as well not be fasting as the whole point is to concentrate on your religion etc, and if all your doing is trying to find ways around it then what your doing is pointless.
From what I understand it is frowned upon to have huge meals just before and just after sunset to make up for what you missed as well. |
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I applaud those who fast as part of their religious beliefs. Christians have Lent and how many actually follow Lent as it is meant to be?
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Well said SamF.
When breaking fasting i'm (and a lot of people) are unable to stuff ourselves to 'make up' what we've missed. Women can miss fast if they are pregnant, breast feeding or if its the time of the month. Jambutty, when fasting people don't exactly drop dead while working. well no one i know has drop dead so far! |
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I never said that people drop dead from fasting kash. All I stated was that a hungry person is unlikely to be at their best and as such would be more prone to making mistakes. In highly responsible jobs like surgery or in charge of a vehicle of any description with passengers on board puts them at a great risk than normal.
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I know plenty of people who aren't actively fasting who just prefer not to eat when working as it impairs their concentration. Oxygen going to the digestive system instead of the brain and all that. I can understand that because I tend to feel sleepy after eating.
We have a fast day once a month in our church and I've never felt any the worse for it. We can fast on other days too by personal choice if we have a specific purpose. |
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I get the bus eveyday and the bus driver will be fasting. His driving is just the same as it was before Ramadan.
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He's not the only bus driver who won't have eaten during the day - I know an English non-muslim one who just prefers not to eat for reasons previously stated.
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Shouldn't it be part of the fasting that one doesn't boast about it?
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All religions have what seem some strage practices to outsiders.
Here are some Christians in the Philippines practicing flagellation. Makes fasting look pretty normal to me.:D |
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When I was at school I once gave up white or whitish things for lent (no spuds or white bread or rice or spaghetti). I have no idea why I did that apart from it being a bit of a challenge. My friend said I would have been better going for green and avoiding the soggy cabbage.
I think I prefer fasting to flagellation too:eek: |
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I was actually thinking about this today and wondering how I would feel about fasting daily for a month compared to one day a month. You have given me food for thought kash if you'll pardon the expression. With a specific purpose in mind I think I might give it a go. :)
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I was brought up in a strict Roman Catholic home and Lent was taken very seriously. What I remember most was not the fact that we fasted, avoided meat and went to church each day, but that Lent was just different to the rest of the year. Nothing special, or even deeply religious just different. One thing though it did make the evening of the Saturday prior to Easter Sunday special when we celebrated the end of Lent.
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